Director: Benedikt Erlingsson | Iceland | Fiction | 2013 | 81 mins Film source: Music Box Films Introduced by John Killacky Iceland’s official 2014 Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film, Benedikt Erlingsson’s gorgeously shot Of Horses and Men is a riotously funny and bitingly ironic look at life and love in a small rural community in Iceland’s […]
Director: Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | Fiction | 2013 | 90 mins Film source: Finecut Hong Sang-soo is on a roll. Following the success of his quirky romantic triptych In Another Country (screened at VTIFF 2012) comes Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, a casually profound comedy-drama about a depressed and restless film student/aspiring actress who drifts back into a relationship with […]
Director: Oskar Santos | Spain | Fiction | 2013 | 92 mins Film source: Film Factory Entertainment Naughty twins Zip & Zap are punished and sent to summer school run by the strict headmaster Falconetti, who rules with a heavy hand and an eyepatch, forbidding all forms of recreation and entertainment. The twins form the Marble Gang in […]
Director: Chris Teerink | Netherlands | Documentary | 2013 | 72 mins Film source: Icarus Sponsored by 05401 Introduced by Janie Cohen, Executive Director, Fleming Museum Sol LeWitt is a thoughtful and informative film about one of the greatest American conceptual artists. Since LeWitt (1928 -2007) was notoriously camera-shy and opposed to public appearances and interviews, we won’t learn much […]
Director: Riota Nakano | Japan | Fiction | 2012 | 74 mins Film source: Fortissimo A moving but surprisingly light-hearted and quirkily humorous study of family and death. Sawa, a long divorced mother of two complex, angst-ridden teenaged sisters, sends her daughters on a cross country trip to capture a photo of the face of their estranged father […]
Director: Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam | Israel/USA | Documentary | 2014 | 74 mins Film source: Kino Lorber Sponsor: Champlain College Post screening discussion with Kimberly Quinn, EHS -Department of Psychology, Champlain College & Dr. David Landers, St. Michael’s College In 2008, China became the first country to classify Internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Today, there are more than 200 […]
Directors: Norman McLaren; Steve Woloshen | Canada/Québec Film source for McLaren: National Film Board; Film Source for Woloshen: Filmmaker Sponsor: Québec Government Office in Boston Special anniversary screening: to honor world-renowned Academy Award winning (Neighbors) filmmaker/animator Norman McLaren on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we’re delighted to welcome Steve Woloshen, considered a McLaren disciple and respected and […]
Reception sponsored by the Québec Government Office in Boston to honor Québec films and filmmakers at the festival. Meet renowned animator Steve Woloshen and representatives from the Québec Government Office in Boston for animated conversation, Shelburne Farm cheeses and Cash bar. Reception follows the screening of McLaren/Woloshen Shorts.
Director: Catherine Breillat | France | Fiction | 2013 | 105 mins Film source: Strand Releasing Sponsor: Barbara McGrew Abuse of Weakness is based on a brilliant premise. In 2004, director Catherine Breillat (Romance; Fat Girl) suffered a stroke, which left her partially paralyzed. While still recovering, she began planning a film to star model Naomi Campbell and infamous […]
Closing Night Film Director: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard | UK | Doc | 2013 | 95 mins Film source: Drafthouse Preceded by Québec Film Reception at 5:30 20,000 Days On Earth is a bold vision of one of music’s most mysterious and charismatic figures: Nick Cave. In their debut feature, directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard fuse […]
Director: Mitchell Kezin | Canada | Documentary | 2014 | 92 mins Film source: Filmmaker A hilarious backstage pass into a fascinating underground world of alternative Christmas music. It all began with Nat King Cole’s The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot. As a child, filmmaker Mitchell related to the song’s emotional message about a lonely little boy with an absent father. From […]
Director: Philippe Garrel | France | Fiction | 2013 | 77 mins Film source: Distribfilm Like the best films of the French New Wave, Philippe Garrel’s Jealousy pays homage to its cinematic forefathers while also making movies seem new again and full of endless possibilities. Garrel literally came of age during the New Wave (he made his first short film in 1964, at […]
Join us at Signal Kitchen to celebrate the (almost) end of the festival and the launch of Season 2 of Makin’ Friends with Ryan Miller. Ryan, lead singer of Guster and host of Makin’ Friends with Ryan Miller will sing songs about friends with his friends in Swale. Swale set will follow.
Director: Mikkel B. Sandemose | Norway | Fiction | 2014 | 96 mins Film source: Magnet Releasing Archeologist Sigurd Svendsen (Pål Sverre Hagen) has for years been obsessed with the Oseberg Viking ship. The only inscription found is ´man knows little` written in runes. Sigurd is sure that the ship contains the answer to the mystery of […]
Director: Janis Nords | Latvia | Fiction | 2013 | 83 mins Film source: New Europa Films Raimonds is basically a good kid. He plays saxophone in the school band. He rides his kickboard around town with friends. He tries to make his busy obstetrician mother proud. But, like any 12-year-old, he can’t entirely avoid a little mischief. One […]
Director: Michael Obert | Germany | Documentary | 2014 | 97 mins Film source: The Film Collaborative Sponsors: Hager Strategic 25 years ago the young American ethno musicologist Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the rainforest in Central Africa. He settled among the Bayka pygmies, got married to a member of the […]
Director: Desiree Akhavan | USA | Fiction | 2014 | 90 mins Film source: The Film Collaborative Sponsor: Prime Lending “Inappropriate Behavior” might have been a more accurate title for writer-director Desiree Akhavan’s comedic romp about the misadventures of Shirin, a bisexual Iranian-American twenty-something (played by Akhavan), who manages to bungle nearly every social situation she encounters. Akhavan, who will […]
Director: Joel Potrykus | USA | Fiction | 2014 | 97 mins Film source: Oscilloscope Marty is a bit of a loser. He does little to no actual work at his temp job at a bank, his diet consists of frozen pizza and Doritos sandwiches, and he spends his free time listening to thrash metal and designing a […]
Director: Kitty Green | Australia/Ukraine | Documentary | 2013 | 80 mins Film source: Cinephil “The world sees our country as one big brothel. Tourists come here to find whores. We believe that we need to protest against this. We need to do everything we can so the world sees Ukraine as a country where naked girls protest, not […]
Director: Michel Gondry | France | Fiction | 2013 | 94 mins Film source: Drafthouse Sponsor: Lyric Theater From Méliès to the Brothers Quay, cinema has produced a number of remarkable movie magicians – directors who revel in the art of illusion, the use of in-camera trickery and sleight of sight; fabulists who unlock the fantastical possibilities of […]